One Small Bite
Food Therapist and Nutritionist David Orozco brings you a non-diet approach that will optimize your physical, emotional, and mental health One Small Bite at a time. David will help you chop harmful diet myths by providing thought provoking conversations grounded in sound nutritional science. From hot topics like fasting, fad diets, sleep, and chronic illnesses, to emotional health, David will help you create body positivity, build healthy relationships with eating, make peace with food, and work on your internal weight. David will cover proven methods to fuel your body and nourish your soul so that you thrive and evolve your internal mindset about health and wellness. The One Small Bite Podcast is where you come to challenge vulnerabilities in order to transform your life, small bites at a time. Subscribe today and take the first bite!
One Small Bite
EP 191 - Looking Healthy Isn’t Being Healthy — What Every Man Needs to Know
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This episode challenges the widespread assumption that being lean, ripped, or muscular automatically means being metabolically healthy. Using eight peer-reviewed studies, David walks through the hidden cardiovascular risks behind the “shredded” aesthetic like elevated LDL cholesterol, saturated fat–driven atherogenesis, the metabolically unhealthy normal-weight (MUNO) phenotype, and why heart disease remains the number-one killer of men. The episode reframes men’s health away from physique obsession and toward lab-driven, sustainable, One Small Bite habits.
Chapter Markers
0:00 — Introduction & Hook
1:30 — The Myth: Abs = Health
3:30 — The Science: What “Lean” Hides Under the Hood
6:30 — Saturated Fat, LDL, and the Artery Problem
9:00 — The MUNO Phenotype: Normal Weight, Abnormal Risk
11:30 — Why Heart Disease Doesn’t Care About Your Six-Pack
13:30 — The Body Trust Reframe
15:30 — One Small Bite: Practical Takeaways
17:30 — Wrap-Up & Call to Action